Quotes About Craft

Language description and metaphors seem readily available. The things I have to work harder at are plot, pacing, and form.

Literary interviews are inevitably packed with the nuts and bolts of how writers do their work, and there's very little that aspiring writers do more readily than fling other people's nuts and bolts into their toolboxes.

The only real reason to write professionally is that you love it enough.

A lot of the writers I've known for 20 years, who used to say, 'Maybe they're right - the novel is dead!' - well, now they don't feel that it's necessarily the biggest job or most sacred calling on the planet. But it's definitely a real thing - it's always been here, always will be here, and one might just as well buckle down and get to work.

Writing is a real activity conducted in real time.

I'm not good at dialogue. I'm not good at holding a mirror up at a real world. I'm not good at believable characterisation.

My dream is to produce a generation of actors who realise what the function of an actor in a movie is supposed to be.

Making realistic films is basically about the style.

Reality is, I'm an actor and an entertainer, and I really wouldn't know what to do with another profession.

For making a good comedy film, you need a good writer whose craft can be understood through the time that he takes to write his script.

Good writing is everything.

Read. Read. Read. Read many genres. Read good writing. Read bad writing and figure out the difference. Learn the craft of writing.

To be a comedian, you gotta jokesmith, there's no way around it.

I have much greater faith in the governor and the state legislature to craft a Medicaid system that is going to be the best fit for the people of Georgia rather than someone in Washington dictating it.

I had been writing fiction since I was in eighth grade, because I loved it.

For me, I just am so grateful to be an actor.

There's a joy in acting that's not present in writing, but there's a gratification in writing and creating that you can't necessarily find in acting.

Music for films allow a great deal of diversity and the more you widen your skills, the better you become.

It's a great experience as an actor to just work loads all the time. Constantly getting through material.

For me, learning about cinema and the craft and the art of it, through making films with great people, has been such a cool experience.

Directors are denied a great pleasure, which is that of being on stage.

I've enjoyed all of the roles I have played for different reasons, which is the great thing about acting. You love different projects for different reasons.

I lost my moorings. But you know the great thing about acting? It's all part of the gig. You get to put it in your work.

Anyone who undertakes the literary grind had better like playing around with words.